Konjo language (Bantu)
Konzo | |
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Olukonjo | |
Native to | Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Ethnicity | Konjo |
Native speakers | 610,000 in Uganda (2002 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
koo |
Glottolog |
konz1239 [2] |
JD.41 [3] |
The Konjo (Konzo) language, variously rendered Rukonjo, Olukonjo, Olukonzo and Lhukonzo, is a Bantu language spoken by the Konjo people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has a 77% lexical similarity with Nande. There are many dialects, including Sanza (Ekisanza).[1]
References
- 1 2 Konzo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Konzo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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